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I am an Oakland-based writer. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Anthropology, and am completing my MFA at San Francisco State University (SFSU) where I taught creative writing. I teach creative writing at California State University Stanislaus (CSUStan), and am co-founder of The Escapery. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Liminal Stories, Foglifter, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal for Compressed Creative Arts, Necessary... Read More →

Carson Beker is a writer, playwright, storyteller, and actor with an MFA and MA from SFSU. She is the co-founder of The Escapery, an SF Bay Writing Unschool and has also taught creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is the former Fiction Editor of Fourteen Hills. Her work has appeared in Gigantic Sequins, Sparkle + Blink, Transfer Magazine, and Bourbon Penn, her plays have been at the San... Read More →

Lynn Brown was technically born and raised in New York, but her heart (and most of her writing) will always belong to New Orleans. She is the co-curator of the Voices from the Margins reading series and editor of the forthcoming Footsteps of Baldwin Anthology, a collection of works by African American expats living in Paris. Her nonfiction work has been published in Conde Nast Traveler, the Colorado Daily News and the Matador Network, while her... Read More →

Kimberly is a MFA candidate at San Francisco State University, a freelance editor and a travel writer. She's currently working on her first novel and a chapbook tapping into all things woman. When she's not wiggling her way through vulnerability, she's out romping on mountains and searching for new places to explore.

Yume Kim is a recipient of both an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Additionally she is also a 2012 recipient of the Kundiman Asian-American Poetry retreat fellowship at Fordham University. Some of her works can be found in sPARKLE + bLINK, The West Wind Review, gesture, Transfer, Writing Without Walls (Vol. 7), Sugared Water, and The East Bay Review. Prior to becoming an East Coast transplant here... Read More →